Re: BrailleBlaster Embossers and Interfaces: Re: JFace
- From: Andreas Stefik <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:11:00 -0500
Oh, I see, you are under the apache License. Great, this is a real possibility.
Stefik
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Andreas Stefik <stefika@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John,
>
> Is it open source? In theory, we could make a jar library that others
> could tap into, allowing programmatic access. This would make it
> possible to embed into NetBeans Platform applications, which is what
> we would need on our end.
>
> For determining the number of characters per line, feeds and such, are
> there any guidelines on how that is to be done. For example, is this a
> per-printer thing?
>
> This might be another dumb question, but if we are printing computer
> code, with the funny symbols that this entails, would you expect any
> problems or think we would need to do any pre-processing?
>
> Stefik
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:55 AM, John J. Boyer
> <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The Braille engine for BrailleBlaster is liblouisutdml. It is written in
>> C and has extensive Java bindings. You could use it directly to produce
>> files for embossing. By design it does not include any embosser drivers.
>> However, most embossers will produce good braille if you simply send
>> them a text file with the proper number of chatacters per line, lines
>> per page, and forms feeds. Specific drivers are needed only for special
>> features. BrailleBlaster will have these drivers. The user will go
>> through a simple setup procedure for a particular embosser.
>>
>> Your question raises another. BrailleBlaster is a desktop application
>> written in Java. Is there a way to connect it to other Java applications
>> so that the latter can make use of its features. In this case the user
>> interface would not be displayed, but the other application could make
>> use of its capabilities. BrailleBlaster does have subcommands like those
>> in Subversion and mercurial, so that it can be called to do tasks like
>> translating and embossing from the command line. Since it is in Java,
>> maybe there is a way to callit directly from within the JRE without
>> having to use something like ProcessBuilder.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:04:18AM -0500, Andreas Stefik wrote:
>>> Hey John,
>>>
>>> This might be a stupid question, but our team has been looking into a
>>> way to add Braille printing into Sodbeans, as the teachers we are
>>> working with have requested it. Is something like braille blaster one
>>> technique for how we would do that? And how hard is it to add such
>>> functionality into an application, do you think? Do you need to do
>>> some kind of network scanning to find appropriate printers, or how
>>> does that work?
>>>
>>> I don't know much about this area. No pressure, but if you have any
>>> advice, it would be welcome,
>>>
>>> Stefik
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:54 PM, John J. Boyer
>>> <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > Rick,
>>> >
>>> > BrailleBlaster will work with as many embossers as we can get drivers
>>> > for. Of course, most embossers will produce plain, properly formated
>>> > braille if just sent text with the proper number of cells per line,
>>> > lines per page, and forms-feeds. So the generic embosser driver willo be
>>> > the first to be implemented. BrailleBlaster will also produce files for
>>> > reading on Braille displays. I think interfaces are mostly an OS matter.
>>> > If we have to do anything, we'll take care of it when we reach that
>>> > stage of development.
>>> >
>>> > John
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 01:04:20PM -0700, Rick Watson wrote:
>>> >> Hi John,
>>> >> what kinds of embossers will brailleblaster work with.
>>> >> also what kinds of interfaces. I am looking for something which will
>>> >> work on a mac and use a network print server.
>>> >>
>>> >> thanks
>>> >> rick
>>> >>
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>>> >>
>>> >> -----Original Message-----
>>> >> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> >> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
>>> >> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 4:01 PM
>>> >> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> >> Subject: Re: JFace
>>> >>
>>> >> Jim,
>>> >>
>>> >> For BrailleBlaster I use FormLayout. It's quite intuitive, once you get
>>> >> used to it.
>>> >>
>>> >> John
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 03:29:35PM -0400, James Homme wrote:
>>> >> > Hi John,
>>> >> > I was hoping they had layout managers or something that would make
>>> >> > laying out GUI's easier.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Jim
>>> >> >
>>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>>> >> > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> >> > [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J.
>>> >> > Boyer
>>> >> > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 3:28 PM
>>> >> > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> >> > Subject: Re: JFace
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Jim,
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Now I recognize it. I looked into it, but it seems to deal mostly with
>>> >> > tables and graphics. We might use it somewhere down the road.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > John
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:12:47PM -0400, James Homme wrote:
>>> >> > > Hi,
>>> >> > > I may have made a mistake when I was talking about JFX. See this
>>> >> > > page. http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/JFace
>>> >> > >
>>> >> > > Jim
>>> >> > >
>>> >> > > Jim Homme,
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